Poetics of Reality (Encoded)

max goelitz, Munich

6 April - 12 June 2021

Troika and Brigitte Kowanz
Curated by Madeleine Freund

‘Irma watched Over by Machines’, 2021 | Troika (Conny Freyer, Eva Rucki, Sebastien Noel) — ‘Irma watched over by machines’, Installation view ‘Poetics of Reality (encoded)’, Brigitte Kowanz and Troika, Max Goelitz, 2021, Photo: Dirk Tacke

‘Irma watched over by machines’ 2021 | Troika (Eva Rucki, Sebastien Noel, Conny Freyer) — ‘Irma watched over by machines’, 16 shades of red, green and blue, 161 (H) x 132 (W) x 4 cm ‘Poetics of Reality’, Brigitte Kowanz and Troika, 2021, Installation view Max Goelitz, Photo: Dirk Tacke

Installation view | poetics of reality (encoded) | brigitte kowanz and troika | max goelitz 2021 | Photo: Dirk Tacke — ‘Installation view, poetics of reality (encoded), brigitte kowanz and troika, max goelitz 2021, Photo: Dirk Tacke

'Hierophany’, 2019 | Troika (Conny Freyer, Eva Rucki, Sebastien Noel) — Installation view ‘Poetics of reality (encoded)’, Brigitte Kowanz and Troika 6 April – 12 June 2021, Photo: Dirk Tacke

‘Unstable Constructs’, 2021 | Troika (Conny Freyer, Eva Rucki, Sebastien Noel) — ‘Unstable Constructs’, Photographic film, perspex tubes, 165 x 15 x 15 cm, 2021, Installation view, Poetics of Reality (encoded), Max Goelitz, April 6–June 2, 2021, Photo: Dirk Tacke

‘Reality is not always probable’ 2020 | Troika (Eva Rucki, Sebastien Noel, Conny Freyer) — ‘Reality is not always probable’, Installation view ‘Poetics of Reality (encoded)’, Brigitte Kowanz and Troika, 2021, Max Goelitz, photo Dirk Tacke

‘Reality is not always probable’ 2021 | Troika (Eva Rucki, Sebastien Noel, Conny Freyer) — ‘Reality is not always probable’, Installation view ‘Poetics of Reality (encoded)’, Brigitte Kowanz and Troika, 2021, Max Goelitz, photo Dirk Tacke

‘Borrowed Light’, 2019 | Troika (Conny Freyer, Eva Rucki, Sebastien Noel) — Installation view | poetics of reality (encoded) | brigitte kowanz and troika | max goelitz 2021 | Photo: Dirk Tacke

Poetics of reality (encoded) brings together for the first time the works of Brigitte Kowanz and the artist collective Troika, expressing through dialogue their experimental approaches to human perception and the transmission and mediation of information. Both artistic positions question different forms of representation via a subversive examination of abstraction and new pictorial formulas.

Their works operate in a long tradition in the fine arts of utilizing scientific methods, but they are about more than powerful aesthetic and conceptual visual phenomena; rather, through language, codes, and algorithms they pursue a critical examination of contemporary issues, from climate policy to digitization

Exhibition curated by Madeleine Freund, in collaboration with galería OMR, Mexico City and supported by NEUSTART KULTUR | Stiftung Kunstfonds.

6 April – 12 June 2021

max goelitz
Maximilianstrasse 35
80539 Munich, Germany